Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHN MAYNARD KNIGHT...
...Dick Whitney was a Morgan broker. He was the President of the New York Stock Exchange for five years. ''The terrible thing about the Whitney scandal.'' wrote Financial Editor Leslie Gould of the New York Journal & American, "is . . . that the broker was the White Knight of the financial district. Whitney was Sir Richard when he went into battle in shining armor against the 1929 crash and again when he stood up and defied Washington and the reformers. Now it turns out that this Great White Knight was an optical illusion...
Small wonder that while ex-White Knight Whitney pleaded guilty to a New York County indictment for grand larceny and was arrested as well by New York State last week, the bar of the Stock Exchange, on the word of the presiding keep, enjoyed an increase in business calculated at exactly...
...Eden, quickly popularized as a sort of League of Nations Knight-in-Shining-Armor. was a big factor in enabling Conservative Party Leader Baldwin to win the next General Election. Meanwhile, Sir Samuel Hoare and French Premier Pierre Laval were privately engaged on a deal to condone Italy's seizure of Ethiopia. The Hoare-Laval "Deal" leaked into the news a few days before its makers were ready to present it to the public as a high-minded effort to make peace on the basis of joint Anglo-French-Italian "carrying of Civilization to the barbarians of Ethiopia...
Cavalcade's back-bending apologies placated the old knight, but within a month Cavalcade's muddling had Sir George's attorneys again on the trail. While Editor Brittain was away recuperating from his strenuous July, another blunderling picked an old letter from Cavalcade's, unused type, slapped it into the August 7 issue to fill out a column. By the weirdest chance this second letter attacked Sir George for attacking Catholicism: Didactic, Semitic, would-be letter -writer George Turner should learn that in the art of good journalism lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being...